Indian equities on Friday ended the week on a negative note below the psychological 9000-mark. This was Sensex’s lowest closure in a month, joining a global market fall after depressing U.S. economic data indicated a deeper recession that would hurt global economic systems.
 
The market witnessed heavy selling pressure all through the day with BSE Bankex hit the most.

The top losers among the sectoral indices included Bankex, which lost 3.49%, IT declined 2.69%, Metal lost 2.67%, Tech down 2.21% and Oil & Gas was down by 2.17%.

It seems that the bitter rivalry between SRK and Amitabh Bachchan has finally ended.

All ends well that ends well!

Bachchan visited SRK at his home, Mannat on Wednesday’s night. Earlier on Monday, SRK had undergone a surgery in Mumbai’s Breach Candy hospital and was discharged the next day from the hospital.

The government on Friday informed the parliament that the country is confronting an acute shortage of psychiatrists as well as mental health experts, and to overcome this problem, it is establishing centres of excellence in mental health.

The Supreme Court has issued a notice to the Union Health Minister A. Ramadoss over the closure of three public sector undertakings (PSUs) manufacturing vaccines like DPT, measles, polio and BCG.

The three PSUs are Central Research Institute of Himachal Pradesh, Coonoors Pasteur Institute of India and BCG Vaccine Lab in Chennai.

Asus has rolled out its new Eee PC 1002HA netbook in the Indian market.

Targeting at professional travelers, the newly launched netbook weighs just 1.2kg (with battery), and has dimensions of 264mm (W) x 181mm (B) x 27.6mm (H).

The compact and lightweight Eee PC 1002HA netbook works on Super Hybrid Engine (SHE), which reduces the power usage by 15 percent. It has 160 GB of hard disk drive with the advanced 10GB ASUS Eee online storage facilities.

The black-colored netbook comes with a 10 inch LED backlight display with a resolution of 1024×600.

Los Angeles  - All the leading actors of Slumdog Millionaire - including the two impoverished children who had a central role in the movie - will attend the Oscars Sunday and take the stage to accept the award if the movie wins the best picture prize, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.

The decision was taken at the last minute after the film's producers and director Danny Boyle had earlier worried that taking the kids to the Hollywood glitter-fest might further complicate the lives of the two children cast from Mumbai's slums.